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NatteringNaybob's avatar

Cyprinus carpio, Kaempferol - highly underrated and one of my favorites. I sense another opus, but expect nothing less from a brilliant mind such as yours. Thank you.

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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

Thank you, I always welcome suggestions.

Kaempferol… Ginkgo biloba. Sounds like another very useful, and accessible flavonoid to review.

I will add it to the list!

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rjt's avatar

Thank you for this review. I need to plant some ground cover in the near future and you have given me an idea.

Your concluding remarks have provided an explanation for case reports in which the conventional chemo is continued while the "alternative" is added. (See some of Dr. Makis' testimonials.) The IVM/fenben acts to enhance the chemo, as you have described for icariin.

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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

Mine are responding well to a foliar feed at 1g/L.

BTW, part II just needs some final editing before posting.

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sadie's avatar

Thanks! All these yrs I was thinking it was the goat head/puncture vine plant.. no harvesting plants I haven't researched is my rule, so I'm grateful for your research presented here.

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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

Thanks! I would like more varieties than grandiflorum, but in the UK all I can find is this and a range of hybrids.

It's still of therapeutic value, but other species have different concentrations of different compounds.

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sadie's avatar

I was way off... the one called "goat head" due to it's thorn looking like a ram's head, is actually tribulus terrestris. I guess people do use it as an herb but it is best known as the plant from Hades. Those thorns are a nightmare and have punctured many feet and bicycle/stroller tires. Goats will eat them but then goats eat anything.

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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

Yikes!

I'm growing a barrel cactus with similar spines that can go straight through gardening gloves. I try not to move it and keep well clear. Chainmail might be more suitable ;-)

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Very good article. Thank you for the information.

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Amat's avatar

I am completely uniformed regarding IA so I had no idea there was such a thing as AI hallucinations, I wonder if they are spontaneously making things up or is it misinformation they are being given that is leading them to a false conclusion, either way it is quite disturbing. Thank you for a very interesting article, I look forward to part 2. I will watch the film you mentioned in your article Cut Poison Burn it sounds very interesting.

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